[ale] Networking Linuxboxes

[James Sumners]

On the local net, the hostnames don't matter that much. Once SAMBA is
configured correctly, and one of the machines is acting as a WINS, you
could use the hostnames to connect to the respective boxes. But it's
just easier to use the names specified in your SAMBA configuration.

SAMBA is in implementation of the SMB protocol from Windows [1]. It
isn't limited solely to working with Windows machines. There's no such
thing as "linux networking," or "Windows networking" for that matter.
If the two machines are on the same network, and can see each other,
they are networked. Simple as that.

Enable SAMBA on your wife's machine. Make sure it is configured to
share the directories you wish to share. Make sure you have the proper
permissions in place (the toughest part, really). Then you should be
in business.


[1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block

2008/5/27 Marc Ferguson <mferguson at digitalalias.net>:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks again for the replies.  What I want to do is mostly file sharing.  We
> are on a switch and sharing the Cable connection through a Linksys router.
> We can ping each other's IP addresses, but not our hostnames.
>
> I'm a little lost with hostnames.  I changed mine from
> "localhost.localdomain" to "marc.linux" and I think my wifes is
> "katina-linuxBox" (yes a hyphen).  We did this using the GUI networking
> option - I'm afraid of the /etc path.  I can see in the router's DHCP list
> katina-linuxBox, but mine is blank. We both know each other's IP, but I
> don't know if my hostname applied properly.
>
> I have SAMBA running because I was trying to get it to work with a Windows
> machine I have on the network (which was unsuccessful), but she doesn't have
> SAMBA running.  I thought SAMBA was specifically for sharing linux/windows
> resources with each other.  I didn't know it could also be used to share
> linux resources with itself.  Noob thinking, but linux networking is new to
> me since I now have to think of components and not just peer-to-peer in a
> Windows environment.
>
> --
> Marc F.



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